In 1998, the Getty Center hosted the ''Time and Bits: Managing Digital Continuity'' conference, gathering the founders and thinkers of two San Francisco non-profit organizations interested in long-term thinking and archiving: the Internet Archive and the Long Now Foundation. This chapter proposes to discuss two different ways of archiving through time, in digital and analog formats, for virtual web contents and physical paper-based ones. It explores various types of archiving methods and tools and the management challenges they raise, in terms of time and space, but also innovation, maintenance, and ''continuity''. It depicts two distinct visions of the future of archiving which nonetheless converge in their mission of safeguarding, sharing, and giving access to information and knowledge for the decades and centuries to come.

翻译：1998年，盖蒂中心举办了“时间与比特：管理数字连续性”会议，聚集了来自旧金山两家关注长期思考与存档的非营利组织——互联网档案馆与长今基金会的创始人与思想家。本章旨在探讨针对虚拟网络内容与实体纸质内容，通过数字与模拟两种格式进行跨时代存档的不同路径。文章从时间与空间维度，同时兼顾创新、维护与“连续性”等层面，深入剖析各类存档方法与工具及其带来的管理挑战。文中描绘了两种截然不同的存档未来图景，但二者在使命上殊途同归：皆为守护、共享并向未来数十年乃至数世纪的人们提供信息与知识的访问途径。